The Rachel Carson Council (RCC) hosted a panel, “Overcoming Corporate Threats to Academic and Community Environmental Health Research on Industrial Animal Production,” on June 9th at the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences conference at American University. The event specifically focused an environmental justice lens on the hog industry in North Carolina (NC), addressing the health impacts on communities surrounding confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. Panelists included NC Environmental Justice Network co-director Naeema Muhammad, Earthjustice lawyer Marianne Engelman Lado, and RCC President Robert Musil. Tracy Perkins of Howard University moderated the discussion.

This video depicts a panel titled “Labor Movement & International Solidarity in EJ ” on October 17, 2015. This panel was organized during the 17th Annual North Carolina Environmental Justice Summit at Franklinton Center at Bricks in Whitakers, NC.

Rick Dove, a former Neuse RiverKeeper, and Naeema Muhammad, a founding co-director of the North Carolina Justice Network, tell of their work and experiences in working for clean water in North Carolina. Their presentations were given at the Factory Farm Summit in Green Bay, WI, sponsored by Socially Responsible Agriculture Project.

On February 8th, 2014, North Carolina will see the largest, most diverse and visionary cross-issue mass mobilization ever in the state. This assembly is happening in response to regressive legislation that has poured of the North Carolina General Assembly that is adversely affecting North Carolinians.

This video depicts a presentation titled . It also includes a session called “community speak-out and government listening panel”. These presentations took place at the 18 Annual Environmental Justice Summit.

This video depicts a concert in celebration of Steve Wing on October 16, 2015. This concert took place during the 17th Annual North Carolina Environmental Justice Summit at Franklinton Center at Bricks in Whitakers, NC.

This video depicts a panel titled “Connecting EJ and International Solidarity Against State Violence ” on October 17, 2015. This panel was organized during the 17th Annual North Carolina Environmental Justice Summit at Franklinton Center at Bricks in Whitakers, NC

This video features a forum titled “EJ and Forward Together/Not One Step Back” at the 16th Annual Environmental Justice Summit. This summit took place at Whitakers, NC, on Oct. 17-18, 2014, and was organized by Environmental Justice Network.

In North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia, millions of residents are bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Florence, which meteorologists are warning could unleash life-threatening storm surges and historic flooding across a wide swath of the East Coast. Even if the storm weakens, experts warn Hurricane Florence could kill thousands of farm animals and trigger catastrophic waste spills from sewage treatment plants, hog waste lagoons and chicken farms. Many of the factory hog farms in North Carolina store their waste by spraying it on nearby fields and neighborhoods, or by depositing it in lagoons that can overflow during hurricanes, causing the toxic pig manure to pour into nearby waterways. We speak with Naeema Muhammad organizing co-director for the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network and Will Hendrick, staff attorney with the Waterkeeper Alliance. Courtesy of Democracy Now.

There are nearly 9 million pigs in North Carolina… and 10 million humans. There are a dozen counties in in the state where pigs actually outnumber humans, but most of these animals live their short lives in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). They are rarely if ever seen by the general public…

Naeema Muhammed of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network describes the environmental devastation caused by the pork industry in North Carolina. She is interviewed by Mikisa Thompson of Workers World Party.

In eastern North Carolina, residents are battling with one of the state’s largest industries: hog farms. Last week, North Carolina lawmakers passed House Bill 467, which limits the damages that residents could collect against hog farms. The billion-dollar industry is primarily clustered in the eastern part of the state, where hog farms collect billions of gallons of untreated pig feces and urine in what are essentially cesspools, then dispose of the waste by spraying it into the air. Residents living in the area of the spray complain of adverse health effects and odor so bad that it limits their ability to be outdoors. For more, we speak with Naeema Muhammad, organizing co-director for the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, and Will Hendrick, staff attorney with the Waterkeeper Alliance and manager of the organization’s North Carolina Pure Farms, Pure Waters campaign. Courtesy of Democracy Now.

The roots of institutional racism are deep and difficult to eliminate. Even in today’s society, racism influences where a person lives, works and plays. Racism also influences the likelihood of exposure to environmental toxins.

EJCOCs provide valuable opportunities to better understand environmental justice problems. EJCOCs should be targeted by policy-makers for environmental reparations or remedies to compensate or restore environmental quality to comparable levels and should be afforded special protection from additional adverse impacts.

WE, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, gathered together at this multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to build a notional and international movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, do hereby re-establish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; to respect and celebrate each of our cultures, languages and beliefs about the natural world and our roles in healing ourselves; to insure environmental justice; to promote economic alternatives which would contribute to the development of environmentally safe livelihoods; and, to secure our political, economic and cultural liberation that has been denied for over 500 years of colonization and oppression, resulting in the poisoning of our communities and land and the genocide of our peoples, do affirm and adopt these Principles of Environmental Justice.

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The Rachel Carson Council (RCC) hosted a panel, “Overcoming Corporate Threats to Academic and Community Environmental Health Research on Industrial Animal Production,” on June 9th at the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences conference at American University. The event specifically focused an environmental justice lens on the hog industry in North Carolina (NC), addressing the health impacts on communities surrounding confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. Panelists included NC Environmental Justice Network co-director Naeema Muhammad, Earthjustice lawyer Marianne Engelman Lado, and RCC President Robert Musil. Tracy Perkins of Howard University moderated the discussion.

This video depicts a panel titled “Labor Movement & International Solidarity in EJ ” on October 17, 2015. This panel was organized during the 17th Annual North Carolina Environmental Justice Summit at Franklinton Center at Bricks in Whitakers, NC.

Rick Dove, a former Neuse RiverKeeper, and Naeema Muhammad, a founding co-director of the North Carolina Justice Network, tell of their work and experiences in working for clean water in North Carolina. Their presentations were given at the Factory Farm Summit in Green Bay, WI, sponsored by Socially Responsible Agriculture Project.

On February 8th, 2014, North Carolina will see the largest, most diverse and visionary cross-issue mass mobilization ever in the state. This assembly is happening in response to regressive legislation that has poured of the North Carolina General Assembly that is adversely affecting North Carolinians.

This video depicts a presentation titled . It also includes a session called “community speak-out and government listening panel”. These presentations took place at the 18 Annual Environmental Justice Summit.

This video depicts a concert in celebration of Steve Wing on October 16, 2015. This concert took place during the 17th Annual North Carolina Environmental Justice Summit at Franklinton Center at Bricks in Whitakers, NC.

This video depicts a panel titled “Connecting EJ and International Solidarity Against State Violence ” on October 17, 2015. This panel was organized during the 17th Annual North Carolina Environmental Justice Summit at Franklinton Center at Bricks in Whitakers, NC

This video features a forum titled “EJ and Forward Together/Not One Step Back” at the 16th Annual Environmental Justice Summit. This summit took place at Whitakers, NC, on Oct. 17-18, 2014, and was organized by Environmental Justice Network.

In North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia, millions of residents are bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Florence, which meteorologists are warning could unleash life-threatening storm surges and historic flooding across a wide swath of the East Coast. Even if the storm weakens, experts warn Hurricane Florence could kill thousands of farm animals and trigger catastrophic waste spills from sewage treatment plants, hog waste lagoons and chicken farms. Many of the factory hog farms in North Carolina store their waste by spraying it on nearby fields and neighborhoods, or by depositing it in lagoons that can overflow during hurricanes, causing the toxic pig manure to pour into nearby waterways. We speak with Naeema Muhammad organizing co-director for the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network and Will Hendrick, staff attorney with the Waterkeeper Alliance. Courtesy of Democracy Now.

There are nearly 9 million pigs in North Carolina… and 10 million humans. There are a dozen counties in in the state where pigs actually outnumber humans, but most of these animals live their short lives in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). They are rarely if ever seen by the general public…

Naeema Muhammed of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network describes the environmental devastation caused by the pork industry in North Carolina. She is interviewed by Mikisa Thompson of Workers World Party.

In eastern North Carolina, residents are battling with one of the state’s largest industries: hog farms. Last week, North Carolina lawmakers passed House Bill 467, which limits the damages that residents could collect against hog farms. The billion-dollar industry is primarily clustered in the eastern part of the state, where hog farms collect billions of gallons of untreated pig feces and urine in what are essentially cesspools, then dispose of the waste by spraying it into the air. Residents living in the area of the spray complain of adverse health effects and odor so bad that it limits their ability to be outdoors. For more, we speak with Naeema Muhammad, organizing co-director for the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, and Will Hendrick, staff attorney with the Waterkeeper Alliance and manager of the organization’s North Carolina Pure Farms, Pure Waters campaign. Courtesy of Democracy Now.

The roots of institutional racism are deep and difficult to eliminate. Even in today’s society, racism influences where a person lives, works and plays. Racism also influences the likelihood of exposure to environmental toxins.

EJCOCs provide valuable opportunities to better understand environmental justice problems. EJCOCs should be targeted by policy-makers for environmental reparations or remedies to compensate or restore environmental quality to comparable levels and should be afforded special protection from additional adverse impacts.

WE, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, gathered together at this multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to build a notional and international movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, do hereby re-establish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; to respect and celebrate each of our cultures, languages and beliefs about the natural world and our roles in healing ourselves; to insure environmental justice; to promote economic alternatives which would contribute to the development of environmentally safe livelihoods; and, to secure our political, economic and cultural liberation that has been denied for over 500 years of colonization and oppression, resulting in the poisoning of our communities and land and the genocide of our peoples, do affirm and adopt these Principles of Environmental Justice.

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